April 7, 2017 – 7:07 am
President Trump is putting both Russia and Syria’s leader Bashar Assad on notice (NBC News) The United States fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syria overnight in response to what it believes was a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 100 people. At least six people were killed, Syria claimed, but the Pentagon said […]
March 23, 2017 – 8:39 am
Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ie, Obamacare, was passed, Republicans have promised to repeal it in full. That’s why they were elected in a wave to the House in 2010. We were promised this in 2012, 2014, and 2016, adding on “replace” as Ocare took effect. The Ryan “Trumpcare” bill is supposed […]
March 21, 2017 – 8:04 am
None of this really addresses the fundamental flaws of the replace bill (Politico) House Republican leaders are making a last-ditch attempt to win enough support to pass their Obamacare repeal, revealing an expansive series of changes to the bill on Monday night designed to woo wary GOP lawmakers. Requested by President Donald Trump, the amendment […]
March 18, 2017 – 7:17 am
Throughout the campaign, Trump and his advisors promised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate agreement time and time again. Were were told he would “cancel it” and “rip it up”, among others. At the end of January, his advisors were promising that he was going to do this “within days.” That hasn’t […]
March 16, 2017 – 8:07 am
Regardless of whether you think Trump is taking a cleaver or a scalpel to the federal budget and federal programs, this is something that hasn’t been seen since the days of Reagan, and perhaps not even then. It is a massive expression of how Trump wants to deconstruct government Donald Trump Budget Slashes Funds for […]
March 15, 2017 – 10:30 am
As Trump is staffing EPA with lots of climate skeptics, including many aides to Senator Jim Inhofe, a longtime foe of the idiocy of the ‘climate change’ movement, he’s also, supposedly, looking to release orders to make changes to the government involvement in ‘climate change’ (Washington Post) President Trump could issue a sweeping executive order […]
March 10, 2017 – 6:55 am
https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/839882512511946752 So, this happened Thursday (and Ryan was trolled rather hard on Twitter, but, then, that always happens on Twitter) (NPR) “This is the chance. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said the speaker, roving the stage with a wireless mic, gesturing at both the audience in front of him and the PowerPoint presentation behind him. […]
March 2, 2017 – 8:15 am
For eight years, we were treated to the Greatest Orator Ever!!!!! speaking from a teleprompter. Conservatives even came up with a name for Obama’s teleprompter: TOTUS. Teleprompter Of The United States. And discussed TOTUS as if it were alive. There were lots of jokes about this, most in jest, some nasty. Because, when it came […]
March 1, 2017 – 7:36 am
Within the liberal media there is quite a bit of vexation over Trump’s speech, which was pretty darned good. It leads to the typical headlines meant to take shots In speech to Congress, Trump aims to steady presidency after tumultuous start (Tumultuous!) Any minute now, Trump will ruin the good impression he just made Trump […]
February 27, 2017 – 7:35 am
Is it any wonder that President Trump continues to fight with the Credentialed Media when they continue to assault him in a way they would never do to a Democrat? All Republicans know that they are damned if they do damned if they don’t when it comes to the majority of media outlets which will […]
